Improvement in self-sealing button-hole patches for paper collars



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS GRIFFIN, OF ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SELF-SEALING BUTTON-HOLE PATCHES FOR PAPER COLLARS.`

Specifica-tion forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,314., dated August 21, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS GRIFFIN, of Roxbury, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Self -Sealing Button-Hole Patch for Paper Collars 5 and I d0 hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference heilig had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of a paper collar with its button-hole repaired by one of my self-sealing patches. Fig. 2 shows a part of a collar before it is mended. Fig. 3 shows the same afteritis mended. Fig. 4 shows the button-hole mended.

Similar letters of reference in the several gures 'indicate corresponding parts.

In the extensive use of shirt-collars, sleevecuifs, and other articles of wearing-apparel made wholly of paper a want has been expe rienced for some simple device which would answer for mending the button-holes of such articles when, by accident, these holes are broken out or enlarged-a thing which frequently takes place during the act of buttoning the collar or cuff to the neck-band or cuffband.

Heretofore, when button-holes of paper collars and cuffs or wrist-bands, shams, and other articles become broken or enlarged, it was necessary to throw these articles aside as useless 5 but with my invention the buttonholes can be mended or patched, so as to save the loss above mentioned, and also much annoyance to the wearers of such articles when the last of their supply is brought into requisition and the misfortune of tearing out the button-holes is experienced.

To make my invention I take thin paper or cotton and cut it into small pieces of elliptical or other form, and during the operation of cutting it into this form I make abutton-hole, corresponding with the ones in the paper collar, in each piece, as represented in Fig. 4. These perforated pieces of paper or cotton I coat over on one side with gum or gelatine, or some sealing substance which will become dry when applied, but may be made to adhere to another object when moistened and applied to such object. The paper or cotton out of which the perforated pieces are cut may rst be prepared on one side with the adhering substance, and afterward out into the forms desired.

Io mend a broken button-hole of a paper collar I take the patch Aand apply its gummed side across the fracture B ofthe collar. This done, the button-hole of the patch is made to serve as the button-hole of the collar. Thus a useless collar is made almost as good as a new one.

These button-hole patches may be made of 'cotton or any suitable material; but I prefer to make them of paper and cotton combined, as they are designed especially for use with collars made wholly of paper.

In practice, the paper or cotton patches might be made with an upper and under ap, so as to inclose the fracture of the paper collar at the button-hole 5 but the plan shown is the cheapest and most desirable.

In selling' paper collars by the box these patches will or may be sold as an accompaniment.

I do not claim a paper collar manufactured with cotton cloth about the button-holes thereof, but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The prepared detached self-sealing button-hole patch for mending paper collars when they become broken at their buttonholes, as a new article of manufacture and sale, substantially as herein described.

2. The construction of the prepared selfsealing` button-hole mender of paper and cotton, substantially in the manner described, so that it shall have sufficient stiifness for the purpose intended.

3. Mending broken-out button holes ot paper collars by means of a self-sealing patch, substantially as described.

THOMAS GRIFFIN.

Witnesses:

R. H. HoUcH'roN, A. STUART. 

